Gigabyte GA-970A-D3

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 69.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Boot Drive	78.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (26%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-D3 (all builds)
Memory	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130125
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 14 '16 at 04:36
Run Duration	110 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	26%

PC Performing as expected (48^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8350-$130 313,196 User benchmarks, average bench 61% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.5 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	69.7% Good	Memory 89.6 1-Core 78.4 2-Core 145 64% 104 Pts	4-Core 270 8-Core 486 46% 378 Pts	64-Core 486 30% 486 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 69.7% Great: 68%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
AMD 2+0 Stripe/RAID0 240GB 179 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 12GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.10 Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	78.3% Very good	Read 710 Write 289 Mixed 422 104% 474 MB/s	4K Read 16.9 4K Write 96.9 4K Mixed 12.7 93% 42.2 MB/s	DQ Read 138 DQ Write 106 DQ Mixed 55.6 60% 99.8 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 78.3% Great: 120%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$25 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 192GB free Firmware: CC4B Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	64.7% Good	Read 102 Write 124 Mixed 113 85% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 1.17 4K Mixed 0.33 94% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 64.7% Great: 112%
Seagate ST3000VM002-1ET1 3TB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 129GB free Firmware: SC11 Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	65.7% Good	Read 110 Write 119 Mixed 105 84% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.12 63% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 65.7% Great: 79%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB 10,715 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 800 MHz Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	49.4% Average	MC Read 20 MC Write 15.7 MC Mixed 17.1 50% 17.6 GB/s	SC Read 11 SC Write 8.8 SC Mixed 13.7 32% 11.2 GB/s	Latency 67.8 59% 67.8 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 49.4% Great: 54%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 21%

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Desktop 67%

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Workstation 17%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-D3 - $248

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	89x
FX-6300AMD $90Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	61x
FX-6100AMD $68Bench 54%, 44,863 samples	52x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	32x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	21x
GTX 660Nvidia $170Bench 20%, 123,956 samples	16x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	23x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	11x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	10x

RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	85x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	74x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	51x

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Total price: $465

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $170	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $29	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16